ABSTRACT
Engineer Sayyid Mar’i is one of the civilians who continued to fill official high positions after the Revolution. He reached the height of his career during the time of Sadat. Mar’i was born in 1913. He graduated from the College of Agriculture in 1937; was a member of the Egyptian parliament in 1944. Following the Revolution he became responsible for enacting the Agrarian Reform Bill. Most of the time between 1956 and 1971 he held the post of Minister and later Deputy Prime Minister for Agriculture and Agrarian Reform. In 1972-73 he was General-Secretary of the Arab Socialist Union (the ruling party). In 1975 he became Vice-President of the Republic and Speaker of the National Assembly. In 1978 he was named special assistant to President Sadat and then his advisor until Sadat’s assassination. Mar’i has published many books on agriculture and food.
